Enron Executives' Benefits Kept on Growing
As Retirement Plans of Employees Were Cut

By

Ellen E. Schultz and

Theo Francis Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Jan. 23, 2002 11:59 p.m. ET

At a time when Enron Corp. was cutting back on its employee retirement plans to save money, executive benefits at the energy company kept getting richer.

Beginning in the 1990s, Enron joined many other U.S. companies in trimming its employee-pension and savings-plan benefits to cut costs. But throughout the same period, Enron also was continuing to offer a lavish set of pension and retirement plans for its top executives.